I just finished reading an Anne McGaffery trilogy, "Petabea", and as I reflect on the experience I actually feel that there are not a few authors here who are equal or perhaps better than her. I have loved her writing for quite a long time, and my comments are not meant in any way to demean her skills. They are rather comments on how well some of you do and how pleased I am that some of you have chosen to put themselves out on the open market and give it a go.
Frankly, I prefer period pieces, with the gowns and social mores of the 19th century with a bit of Science Fiction put into the mix. Though none of what I am writing just now is 19th century, rather it is something rather different from that.
One of the things I enjoyed about reading when I was younger was the use of words that forced me to keep an open dictionary beside me. :) Asimov was especially competent at confounding the young reader.
Some of you are extremely encouraging toward me and I am greatly thankful for you. Writing for me is "backbreaking" hard work. It does not come as easily as it apparently does for some of you.
Much peace
Gwen
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I doubt that
I seriously doubt that any writer who's strung together more than 20,000 words that were entertaining, and well enough written to keep us reading, would think of writing as easy. I've written a few stories that just flowed and seemed to have a life of their own. One that I'm working on getting the copyright back on. (Why) It's 60,000 words and I had to cut it back to that due to that being the maximum the publisher would accept. Even though the story seemed to flow out of my finger tips, I still had a bunch of work to clean up the punctuation, spelling and miss used homonyms.
I know that I'm not one of the authors to whom you elude, but in their defense, I, for one, believe the fine work we see here,is the result of back breaking work on the behalf of the authors and editors that produce the works. I do realize that those who choose to publish here do so because writing is a labor of love.
And for that, dear authors here; Thank you with all my heart.
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Patricia
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I have no list
I actually don't have a list of who I read from this site. Sarah Lynn Morgan, "The Gift of The Unicorn", is way up on my list. Aardvark is another, and only those who know me will know why. :) "Deception of Choice" is one that had a huge impact on me. "300 Rains" was Good.
Some stories are very hard to read because they trigger old abuse issues. Oddly, there just do not seem to be many, if any, soppy romance stories here.
I am not a critque, I just know what I like.
New Words
There is Jack Vance. He's the one who wrote Tales of the Dying Earth which was a huge influence to Gary Gygax for D&D.
Jack Vance is known for making words up. He does it in a way, that you know what this word means or what it emotes. It's one of my favorite things about his writing. He could probably use a few sentences to describe or make the point the word is, but he has the word and it's a single word and it works. Few authors I think can do this and get away with it.
If you haven't read Vance, I recommend Emphyrio, Showboat World, Alastor, Ports of Call & Lurulu, and Tales of the Dying Earth.
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I would also suggest the 'tribute' books such as this one:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101955.In_Yana_the_Touch_...